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Folk Music Festivals in the UK

We have updated the festivals for 2017. If you are a folk / traditional / acoustic music
festival organiser and your festival's site is not listed / updated, just drop us a line with the details that we
typically display. (See the Contact page.)

The UK folk music scene is a large and vibrant music genre, with folk and traditional music clubs in almost every
town in the the country. Folk music festivals are an important part of the folk or traditional music scene. They give
artists a chance to showcase their talents to a much larger audience than the average folk music club will provide.
I don't know anyone who has gone to a festival and not returned with news of some new band that impressed them.
(Okay, a group that was new to them anyway.)

Finding a folk festival has now become easier. We aim to list almost all the festivals in the UK. If you
know of one that's missing, do let us know, so we can update the lists. We have arranged the festivals by country
and by date, as well as our famous Big List which covers all those festivals that we know about. Festivals starting
within the next five weeks can be found on our This Month page.

The list of music festivals is initially compressed when displayed, to make scrolling through it easier. Clicking
on a festival name expands the details to show the festival location, dates, ticket prices and a brief summary of the
event.

Prices - concession prices, early birds, full adult and family prices would complicate our listings, so we
tend to list either the full adult price, or the adult early bird price if it is available for a long time. Perhaps
next year we'll list all of them.

We have taken a slightly liberal view in our interpretation of a folk festival, in an attempt to include as wide
a variety as possible (although we don't include dance only festivals). Better to have a wider choice than you wanted
than miss out something that you would really like to know about. And we make a point of visiting every web site
listed, to check the festival is on and the site is live.